Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Title
Arts and Humanities in Higher Education
Publisher
SAGE
School
School of Arts and Humanities
RAS ID
61985
Abstract
Humanities educators are frequently frustrated by students’ poor engagement in reading. The contemporary student experience is characterised by disruption and precarity. Similarly, is that of teachers who work in casual employment. This discussion is located within broader conversations around the neoliberal university, but aims to make more visible ways that teaching and learning are increasingly shaped by precarity, and consequences for the humanities. It describes what precarity in higher education looks like and considers the kinds of strategies that students and their teachers are positioned to develop by virtue of engaging in education under such conditions, amid chaos, making these meaningful through the learning theory of connectivism. This discussion points to some examples of humanities-based pedagogical innovations that seek to strengthen reading skills, while also acknowledging the changing circumstances of students to point towards avenues for ongoing consideration, reflection, and innovation in the humanities.
DOI
10.1177/14740222231190338
Creative Commons License
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Comments
Kadmos, H., & Taylor, J. (2023). No time to read? how precarity is shaping learning and teaching in the humanities. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/14740222231190338